Emerging Voices Lightning Round 2021

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The Emerging Voices Lightning Round Session provides emerging professionals in the visual resources field and related, the opportunity to present topics from exceptional coursework, such as a master's thesis, or topics with which they are engaged early in their professional life. Emerging professionals are defined as either students in programs leading to a career in visual resources or related, or those within 10 years of the start of their career. Topics presented reveal new ideas as well as different ways of thinking about established concepts. Speakers will give the conference attendees a glimpse of interests and current discourses of the newest VRA members. Hilary Wang - Findings: A Survey on the State of Web Accessibility in Archives and Special Collections Cassie Tanks - “Can You Hear Me OK?”: Launching a Story Based Archive During COVID-19 K. Sarah Ostrach - Photos from Taipei in Washington, DC: Processing a Chinese Collection at the National Gallery of Art Allie Scholten - Remediating Records: Critical Cataloging and Keywork Reparation Jack O'Malley - Protecting Employment and Building Capacity During a Crisis

Education

Emerging Voices Lightning
Round 2021
March 23, 2021
Moderators: Julia Murphy and Summer Shetenhelm
Sponsored by:

Presenters
Allie Scholten Jack O'Malley
Cassie Tanks K. Sarah
Ostrach
Hilary Wang

FINDINGS - A SURVEY ON THE STATE
OF WEB ACCESSIBILITY IN ARCHIVES
AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Hilary Wei Wang
hwang63@pratt.edu
MSLIS Pratt Institute School of Information
VREPS Emerging Voices Lightning Round - VRA
March 23, 2021
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NOTE: Presentation slides have been removed as per the presenter's preference.
Please feel free to contact Hilary if you have questions about this project!

Photos from Taipei in
Washington, DC:
Processing a Chinese
Collection at the National
Gallery of Art
K. Sarah Ostrach
Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship
Yale University
VRA Virtual Chicago 2021
Tuesday, March 23

What | Where | When
3000+ photos of Chinese
painting and calligraphy in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei
Mainland China → Taiwan
Taiwan → Univ. of Michigan
UM → Cleveland Museum of Art
CMA → National Gallery of Art
Photos by Yuri Long

Digital & Physical Access | Preservation
524 artist authority and
bibliographic MARC records
● Pinyin
● Wade-Giles
● Simpliﬁed characters
Rearrange and Rehouse
photographs
● Pinyin
● Clamshell
Photo by Yuri Long

Baby’s ﬁrst catalog record!
Research out of your (and your
institution’s) comfort zone
New ILS!
3000 photos is a lot of photos…
Documentation
Communication is key!
Challenges & Lessons Learned

Takeaway: Why this collection?
1. Photos as objects and
historical record
2. Goal: encyclopedic
collection
3. Not everything exists in
the digital world --yet?

Thank you!
Questions? Comments?
K. Sarah Ostrach (she/her)
2020-2021 Kress Fellow in Art
Librarianship
Yale University
ksostrach@gmail.com NPMT Collection Summary
Record & Bibliography

Remediating Records:
Critical Cataloging and
Keyword Reparation
Allie Scholten
Digital Collections Manager
University of Chicago Visual Resources Center
Unrecorded Kongo artist, Nkisi
Nkondi Mawenze, before 1878.

Resources
● Critical cataloging resources
compiled by the Visual Resources
Center staff, students, and
collaborators
Piet Hein Eek and Gerrit de Jager, Illustrator’s
Ofﬁce, 1998.

Subject Headings
Slaves
Dwarfs
Homeless persons
Enslaved persons
People with dwarﬁsm
People experiencing
homelessness

Subject Headings
Slaves
Dwarfs
Homeless persons
Enslaved persons
People with dwarﬁsm
People experiencing
homelessness
Orientalism Orientalism (appropriation)

Transparency about
changes
VRC Subject Language Guide

Social Media
see more on Instagram @uchicagovrc

Protecting employment and
building capacity during a crisis
A case study of the New York Transit Museum during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Marcin Wichary - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2126321930/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3344344
Jack O’Malley
M.S.L.I.S. candidate
Pratt Institute School of Information
Presentation for VRA 2021
jomalley@pratt.edu
NOTE: Presentation slides have been removed as per the presenter's preference.
Please feel free to contact Jack if you have questions about this project!

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